1959 Les Paul - TONE!!

HIGH QUALITY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCXY9sLSLYs&fmt=18

Average playing - just a mess around with some nice tone!

Amp is Cornell Romany Plus with a celestion alnico blue. Amp on about 6 and being VERY heavily boosted to within an inch of it's life with a bsm velvet treble boost on about 3/4 and a BYOC clay jones type tubescreamer.

SM57 MIC into cheap audio interface

Mixdown was done in garageband with a bit of reverb added. No EQ.

Hope you like it,

Cheers

Johnny

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gibson Les Paul
• 59
• R9
• replica
• 1959
• burst
• original
• PAF
• Marshall Amp
• fender tweed
• cornell

[gruffers]

And while we're at it, lets hear it for that amazing little Cornell amp combo which considering it was thrashed to within an inch of its life held it together with confidence and I thought true elegance. Quite honestly, I've heard more than a few stacks that would have come un-hinged with so much boost! Bravo!

[johnbeloe]

@gruffers didn't bad an eyelid...that thing's solid as a rock!

[MeKreyze1]

Wow what a great sound you have captured. This video and your PG style improv videos are quite remarkable. The PAF double tones you coax from you guitar remind me of a bootleg recording I have heard of Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top from 1971-2. The song is "Just got back from Baby's". Billy is playing it PG style.

Have you heard of Cuby and the Blizzards?

Check out this YouTube video: Cuby and the Blizzards-Live 1968

I hear alot of similarites of tone. Keep up the excellent playing!

[johnbeloe]

@MeKreyze1 cheers - that's a very flattering comment to say the least! Thanks for the incredible links - never heard either one before - fantastic tone and playing in both! The first one really reminds me of a version of blues deluxe I have from the truth album by jeff beck and rod stewart. The zz top one is definately very pg green in bb king mode - top stuff!!

[yugijan2196]

Why do you wrap your string over the saddle? Ive seen it done before, but Ive never known why...btw great playing!

[johnbeloe]

@yugijan2196 thanks for the comment - search top wrapping in google - it's a feel thing for me

[buckster7777]

@friskyisfat same here...

[Value1Productions]

@Value1Productions nevermind I got it

[Value1Productions]

@johnbeloe can u email me a tab for the lick at 0:31 please I have been trying to find out how to play that one lick and I cant pick it out by ear

[Value1Productions]

whats the name and or tab of the lick at 0:31

[5150stephen]

wish i could play like that, and get a tone as beautiful as that

[frankiev1231]

sounds like Santana !!

[sirsteven88]

@yugijan2196 Any time!

[yugijan2196]

@sirsteven88 Dude thank you!!!!!!

[sirsteven88]

@yugijan2196 I got turned on to it from Jimmy Page Billy Gibbons and Joe Bonamassa, it makes the strings feel a bit more slinky. This means that you can use heavier gauge strings for their tone while maintaining the feel of lighter strings, or you can still use light strings and have them really really maneuverable. I've heard about this making a difference in the transfer characteristic through the tailpiece too, which I suppose comes into play but my guitar is an Epi so I can't hear it as much

[Polarbearr1]

Fucking christ, that tone!